On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 15:49, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 04/03/2021 02:07, George N. White III wrote: > > I'm not sure how dnf would be able to add a user to those groups or flag > the need to do that. > > In the event that what I wrote was ambiguous I just want to clarify what I > was attempting to say. > > Installs of brlapi and brltty packaged by fedora (as early as F27) > resulted in the creation of the > brlapi group. It did not add any users to that group. I don't have the > F27 rpm to examine. > However, the group creation was most likely done by a post installation > script the packager > included in the rpm. > Yes -- that is what how I understood the situation. The brltty devs maintain Debian and RedHat packages with different post-install while creating groups with systemd should work across distros (but the step to move the creation so systemd is easily overlooked, and may not be noticed for a while since most installs will be upgrades rather than fresh installs). > Just like, for example wireshark, it is up to someone with admin/root > privileges to add users > to a given group. > > FWIW, the "groups" command can be used to list the current groups of a > user's current shell > environment. > For many users, the need to create and join groups falls in the category of unknown unknowns. -- George N. White III
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